Orhan Yilmazkaya

Orhan Yilmazkaya (died 27 April 2009) was the founder of the Revolutionary Headquarter Marxist-Leninist militant group in Turkey.

Biography
Orhan Yilmazkaya was a convinced communist, and Yilmazkaya sought to lead a leftist revolution in Turkey to topple the government, which was heading increasingly towards Islamism. In 2009, Yilmazkaya created the Revolutionary Headquarter Marxist-Leninist militant group to launch an uprising, and he stated that he would fight "until the last drop of blood" in his Istanbul apartment. Police raided his apartment in the Bostanci locale of the city, and Yilmazkaya and a few other militants shot at everything that moved outside of the apartment before being gunned down.